NOVEMBER 9, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1889- Claude Rains, theatre and motion picture actor, and Capitol Records artist (narrator of "Bible Stories For Children" series of in 1948), is born William Claude Rains in Camberwell, London, England

ON THIS DAY IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1950 - Ramblin' Jimmie Dolan, with Cameron Hill on guitar, records the tracks "Hot Rode Race", "Walkin' With The Blues" and "Washed Away With The Tide" at a session for Capitol Records
1951 - Jo Stafford records the track "Shrimp Boats"
1954 - Coronet player Bobby Hackett records the Glenn Osser arranged tracks "Rain", "Serenade In Blue", "Lazy River", and "Get Out Of Town", in New York City for his Capitol Records album "In A Mellow Mood"
1959 - Faron Young's Capitol Records single "Country Girl", with "I Hear You Talkin'" on the flip side, hits #1 on Billboard's Country Singles chart
1959 - Capitol Records releases The Kingston Trio's single "Coo Coo-U" (recorded February 2, 1958 in Studio B of The Capitol Tower Studios in Hollywood, California with the addition of Mongo Santarnaria on congas and Willie Bobo on timbale and vocal shouts) with a version of the John Stewart-penned "Green Grasses" (recorded September 28, 1959) on the flip side that did not include the later added banjo in the mix
1961 - Dinah Shore re-records "I'll Walk Alone" for Capitol Records, with Dick Reynolds conducting the orchestra, seventeen years to the month after her original 1944 Columbia Records version hit #1 on the U.S. singles charts
1999 - Bonnie Raitt, Capitol Records artist, announces her divorce from Michael O'Keefe
2003 - Buddy Arnold (born Arnold Grishaver), saxophonist, co-founder, with his wife Carole Fields, of the Musicians' Assistance Program (an organization that has treated over 1,500 people working in the music industry for drug and alcohol addiction), and Capitol Records artist (both as a member of Stan Kenton and His Orchestra and as a solo artist), dies at age 77 in Los Angeles, California of complications after open heart surgery.

ON THIS DAY NOT QUITE IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1961 - Brian Epstein attends a lunchtime show by The Beatles' at The Cavern Club, a disused warehouse beneath Matthew Street in Liverpool, England, to see what all the fuss is about. After the band finishes playing, he introduces himself, invites the group (at the time John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best) to drop by the NEMS shop he runs and, during their visit, offers to manage the band.
1966 - Johnny River's Imperial Records single "Poor Side of Town" (the only one of his top 40 hits that he wrote himself), with "A Man Can Cry" on the flip side, hits #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. Imperial Records catalog is currently owned by EMI Music, parent company of Capitol Records.
1967 - With John Lennon featured on its cover, the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published

ON THIS DAY NOT IN CAPITOL RECORDS HISTORY
1951 - Sigmund Romberg, composer of operettas (including "Maytime", "Blossom Time", "Student Prince", "The Desert Song", The New Moon", and "Up In Central Park") and film scores, dies at age 64 in New York City, New York
2003 - Art Carney (born Arthur William Matthew Carney), television and motion picture actor, dies at age 85